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Lexicon :: Strong's G5515 - chlōros

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χλωρός
Transliteration
chlōros (Key)
Pronunciation
khlo-ros'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as Χλόη (G5514)
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Strong’s Definitions

χλωρός chlōrós, khlo-ros'; from the same as G5514; greenish, i.e. verdant, dun-colored:—green, pale.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G5515 in the following manner: green (3x), pale (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G5515 in the following manner: green (3x), pale (1x).
  1. green

  2. yellowish pale

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
χλωρός chlōrós, khlo-ros'; from the same as G5514; greenish, i.e. verdant, dun-colored:—green, pale.
STRONGS G5515:
χλωρός, χλωρά, χλωρόν, from χλόη, tender green grass or grain);
1. green: χόρτος, Mark 6:39 (Genesis 1:30); Revelation 8:7; πᾶν χλωρόν, Revelation 9:4.
2. yellowish, pale: ἵππος, Revelation 6:8. (In both senses from Homer down.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
1:30
Mark
6:39
Revelation
6:8; 8:7; 9:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5515 matches the Greek χλωρός (chlōros),
which occurs 15 times in 14 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the [fn]sky and to every thing that creeps on the earth [fn]which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet grown, for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to [fn]cultivate the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:37 -

Then Jacob [fn]took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and he peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was [fn]in the rods.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:15 - For they covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Thus nothing green was left on tree or plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - Then Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this assembly will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - ‘All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, [fn]unsown and nothing sprouting, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 -

‘So their inhabitants were short of power,

They were dismayed and put to shame;

They were as the plant of the field and as the green herb,

As grass on the rooftops is scorched before it rises.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:8 -

“He explores the mountains for his pasture

And searches after every green thing.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:25 -

When the grass disappears and the vegetation appears,

And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:6 -

For the waters of Nimrim are [fn]desolate.

Surely the grass is dried up, the tender grass has [fn]completely ceased,

There is no green thing.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:7 -

The bulrushes by the Nile, by the [fn]edge of the Nile

And all the sown fields by the Nile

Will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:11 -

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;

Women come and light a fire with them,

For they are not a people of discernment,

Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.

And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:24 - “And all the trees of the field will know that I am Yahweh; I bring down the exalted tree, exalt the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am Yahweh; I have spoken, and I will do it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:47 - and say to the forest of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh: thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I am about to kindle a fire in you, and it will consume every [fn]green tree in you, as well as every dry tree; the blazing flame will not be quenched, and [fn]the whole surface from south to north will be scorched by it.
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